Don't you just love it when God clearly speaks to you about something? That happened to me today. This morning in my devotions my study was about love. Later in the day during our homeschool PE hour, our "Mom chat" was on the subject of...you guessed it--LOVE!!
I have been so blessed this day. I have been reminded once again that we cannot love others until we realize how much He loves us. And once we do, we won't be able to stop loving, giving, encouraging, serving, doing, etc. As a Mom I want to focus more on how much He loves my children than on the "rules" and things they should not do; I need to encourage them more, build them up more. I get so caught up in what they are doing wrong so often that I forget to remind them (as I forget myself) of how much Jesus loves them!Matthew 22:37-39 (New International Version)
37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
If the GREATEST commandment is to love one another, then I imagine the consequences of not doing this will be quite great.
I once heard a pastor say that He loves you as though you were the ONLY one in the world to love...I told my boys that yesterday. My oldest beamed as I told him and I plan on telling him much more often!!
Blessings on you today as you strive to love Him and bathe yourself in His love for you...and then pass that along to others!
Loving Him,
Mel
Mel, I enjoy telling my kids, " I love you, and I will always love you, no matter what." "There's nothing you could ever do to make me stop loving you." I mean it, yet I also know only Jesus can help me love like that. Blessings.
ReplyDeleteYou are so, so right Kathy! Blessings to you too. :)
ReplyDeleteIsn't it so much easier to see the wrong and correct than to see the right and encourage? I have to work on that *all* the time!
ReplyDeleteI drove by New LIfe Camp Friday night and missed you :-)